Why Anti-Black Racism Appears Across Racial Groups

Anti-Black racism persists because institutions make anti-Blackness appear rational, beneficial, or necessary for survival.

1. Anti-Blackness is the baseline of the hierarchy

2. Whiteness receives institutional rewards

3. Anti-Blackness becomes a survival strategy

4. Immigration law signals who belongs

5. Media reinforces anti-Black stereotypes

6. Anti-Blackness is transmitted across generations

7. Solidarity is intentionally fractured

Anti-Blackness also harms non-Black communities by limiting their freedom to build genuine solidarity, forcing them into a racial bargain that ties their belonging to the ongoing marginalization of Black people. No group benefits from a system that requires participation in another group’s oppression.